F12 Wireless disabled with kernel 2.6.31.6-162
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Dec 9 19:46:24 UTC 2009
Richard England wrote:
> pro/wireless 2200BG in a Dell Latitude D410. F12 Fully updated (as of 7
> December).
>
> With Kernel 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 the wireless is completely
> disabled. This was the latest kernel installed.
>
> Backing down to kernel 2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 everything returns to
> normal. This was the immediately preceding kernel I had.
>
> Any one confirm this? I looked for a BZ entry but I'm notoriously bad
> at finding things there....
>
Did you have a 3rd party driver installed, like kmod-wl or similar? If so did
you update that?
Boot your old kernel and see what driver is in use. If it's not a Fedora driver
you are on your own. At least people here are polite, LKML is less so on
occasion. ;-)
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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